> On 28/04/2016, at 3:09 AM, Robert Mustacchi <[email protected]> wrote: > > To me the thing that actually stands > out much more is that you have said that the zone can use 16 GiB of > swap. In this context, swap refers to the maximum amount of allocated > anonymous virtual memory where as the max physical memory is only > referring to the amount that's currently paged in. I suspect you may > have overprovisioned this value based on the machine in question.
Ahh. > we have to honor the Linux tradition of mapping > anonymous memory without a guaranteed reservation. I.e. if you ask for it, you get it - whether or not you'll actually be able to use it when push comes to shove? I'd heard of the OOM - I suppose free and easy allocation with the absence of an OOM killer is going to be difficult... > Therefore if you're > running lots of processes in parallel and exceeding your memory and > swap, the offending process will die. Yes, and this is what I'd be expecting. I'm surprised to discover it's allowed to take out the whole box, however. OK, I'll fiddle with numbers for a while. -Dave ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
